or any other reason… im curious.
Left reddit during the api/apps fiasco.
There are DOZENS of us!
…No? I’m pretty sure that was the first massive wave of relatively diverse active users. Lemmy was pretty fringe before that happened. I think there are tens of thousands of us.
That’s a LOT of dozens!
Same. Reddit without Relay isn’t worth it
RiF here, but agreed. (Now Voyager)
Me too
Same here! My app stopped working (rip rif… You will be missed…!), I thought I give the official reddit app a try, it wouldn’t let me log in no matter what I tried and then I heard of lemmy via feddit. Only went back once to delete all my data and to close my account.
In hindsight, I’m really glad reddit did this. They single handedly gave their competitor (Lemmy) critical mass to be a true alternative. Without enough users, it’s just not the same.
Saaame.
I used the reddit app many many moons ago, but then discovered Boost. Once it quit working flawlessly, Lemmy became home. And Boost for Lemmy is wonderful :)
Same. I still miss bacon reader.
This is/was the way. I mean, not that people are not welcome here now but still supporting reddit that long is like supporting Elon after he went mad or Trump after the first time around…
Yep. Also left digg during their ad push fiasco to go to reddit.
This. Fuck reddit
Same. Used rif.
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I left reddit because fuck them
I still read through reddit pages if they come up in search - there’s just too much useful info to ignore it. But I’m not going there directlyDitto. Use libreddit instances to read, but I do not feed the beast
Is it just me, or does r/all seem like it’s getting more conservative?
imo reddit as a whole is conservative. the userbase is center-left at the most visible and i regularly saw progressive opinions discarded or mocked. you’d expect the liberals to defend them at the least but i’d see less of that and they’d get dogpilled too.
I’m center-right and I was witch hunted off of reddit. I’m sure the fact that I approved of Luigi didn’t help.
TBF, I am critical of Luigi and find myself having to tread on thin ice with my opinons
oh they hate when you say that there lmao
What got me upset with reddit is how sensitive its algorithm is falsely flagging stuff inciting violence. And then you appeal and nothing happens. I even got banned once for saying the Second Ammendment applies to the left too. It’s like you are in a bad relationship, walking on eggshels.
A lot of it is literal chat bots and not even real people
How long do you think it’ll be before it’s a network of AI echo chambers in which the majority of interactions are with bots?
One of the main reasons I left Reddit was because I suspect we’re very close to that exact scenario. I can’t prove it, but many interactions just seem suspicious.
It looks like most of their non-investor revenue comes from ads and data mining. I assume buyers only want human human views and data. With that in mind, what do you feel like is going on over there, and what will it lead to? Can they get users to pay enough to make an AI fantasy land? Will they defraud advertisers and data miners wi AI astroturf? It’s such a weird frontier. I wonder what fresh new horrors will emerge from the dystopia.
Edit: Not strictly relevant, but interesting link:
I think it’s a cat and mouse game, where they don’t approve or want them there but nothing they can really do.
There is c/feedthebeast@lemmit.online, but im not sure that counts
What’s the issue with just using an adblocker? You cost them money to serve your queries but don’t make them any money provided you just browse and do not comment/post/vote
Dropped Reddit cold turkey when they closed the API.
It was an adjustment at first, but I do feel like the ecosystem has continued to grow and evolve, as well as me just adapting to what was on offer better.
I still never purposefully visit Reddit, but sometimes I just end up there from search results or links and it gives me the ick.
Same here. Lemmy at this stage feels a lot like Reddit did when I joined back in the early 2000s.
I’m glad I made the switch, because things are just generally nicer in a smaller community.
This is exactly what happened to be. I tried Mastodon for a bit but it was kinda boring? So now I’m here.
This is my exact answer. Thank you for writing it all for me.
It’s Turkiye* now.
I wasn’t banned, I just came here because of their API changes like many others. I always bring up “the grass is greener where you water it,” so I came here, and mod !gamedev@lemmy.world. I still view and use reddit some; it’s just more popular. But I try to do my part to make the Lemmy space a little more robust.
"the grass is greener where you water it
Great philosophy.
Which is why I encourage everyone to mod a community, be it or on another Lemmy instance!
Same here. I stay on Reddit for my local communities, some sports (though !cfb@fanaticus.social is still waiting in the wings!), and a couple of hobbies, but I actually just un-subbed from the remaining general interest subreddits I was on. There’s less commenting here, but as much or more conversing.
I left Reddit in disgust during the API situation. All the cool kids were coming here, so I did too.
Same here (I was never one of the cool kids, though).
Lemmy is full of dorks, and I love that. Among its other flaws, Reddit could be mean-spirited at times. I haven’t seen the same willingness to ignore ordinary human decency in favour of karma-farming here.
Old reddit was so so useful this transition to everybody being loud with little depth of knowledge has been sad to watch.
The people who shouldn’t comment or reply ro any post are the ones who immediately chime in with advice there, they’ve even taken to giving you ai responses like mf, I am fully capable of opening chatgpt on my own if I wanted ai responses
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Raised brow indeed!
Holy shit the first thing I had to do when I got to Lemmy was block like 250 deep-fried-content accounts and communities. And I have to block something or somebody new almost daily here.
Yeah, okay, true, but – it’s like all the malice and narcissism of the whole group are concentrated in a very small number of individuals. Like Canada with their geese.
I left over the API bullshit.
Same it was the bridge too far. Reddit was something I was willing to deal with on my terms. They decided that wasn’t good enough and I’m smart enough to walk away from a toxic relationship.
Same
Yup, once they wanted to force their garbage app on me, I quit.
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Left from api and spez being a terrible piece of shit. Was never banned. Stayed away from the many things that Reddit has done since
I too moved over during the api hulabaloo but I only used the website. I just was pretty sick of it and when I looked at the federation I was like. this is fine. Many folks want more numbers but I can take it or leave it as I like the sorta in crowd we got going.
I escaped when they killed their API.
I left over 2 years ago because of the whole API thing
Same. Rip RIF is fun
That sucks. I’m on Eternity for Lemmy thanks to Infinity for Reddit’s nice community forking the project for Lemmy
RIF ly beloved 😭
I’ll be honest I came to the platform before the whole API-pocolypse because Reddit was down for about half a day, and I was getting tired of Reddit’s BS. But ultimately the API-pocolypse made me swear never to post to Reddit again and cut it cold turkey, more or less.
I was taking part in the blackout, but obviously Reddit the company did not listen, so I left. And here I am.
I also came here shortly before the full API bullshit. They announced it (months?) before, or there were at least hints from app developers about what was going to happen.
By that point i already had a laundry list of other shit i was pissed off about at that site. So i knew that was finally time to leave and find somewhere else.
Third party apps being killed was the final straw. I’d participated for more than a decade, but reddit changed. The hive mind got worse, bots took over, you couldn’t really have a discussion anymore. Downvotes were default, if your comment even got engaged, with while the rest were people/bots recycling tired old quips and reposts trying to ride a karma train for internet points. Somehow reddit decided to make sure right-wing subs had free rein despite knowing bad actors and paid foreign influence were blatantly happening. Then of course there’s reddit corporate sanitizing reddit by force and cramming ads and a their shitty app down users’ throats.
Reddit used to be the Old Internet in one place, but corporate f’d that up.
I left when I couldn’t use RIF, went back to the official app for a few days because I wanted to follow along with something, had a post removed from a dog food sub because I expressed an opinion, remembered what a shit show Reddit has become, and uninstalled again
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Likewise. Then I realized how much better lemmy is than reddit and never looked back. Way higher quality content and discussions here
My one year anniversary was last month. Fuck Reddit shutting down Apollo and other clients. I was only a lurker, but here feels more like community and I’m pretty active.
The great api killing was the largest lemmy jump I believe
Came here when they killed RiF, 2 years ago I think.
Same. It seems like old Reddit. Which I missed. A few differences. But all in all I am glad I switched. Fuck Spez.
Same, when the app stopped I looked for a new place to call proper home
